Distractions - Blog Posts
Sometimes ur family is you, ur wife, ur kids, and ur family bear, and that old guy and his mule that come from the prospector town to bring goods to ur log cabin on his way through the mountains
Man, everything is just harder, yet easier at the same time nowadays, huh?
Since the quarantine started where I am, things are... Confusing, to say the least. I didn't think I could be any more stressed, but I was apparently wrong.
Big shocker.
I thought I wasn't able to have any more weight on my shoulders of all my school work, just piling up more and more. (Sophomore year of highschool: not really a nice experience if you're in my position.) Again, I was wrong. If anything, it's probably a lot worse.
Big surprise.
Hell, even heating up something for breakfast is harder for me to handle in the morning. I somehow failed the simplest task.
What can I say? I guess my insomnia, ADHD, and me not being a morning person all just sorta teamed up on me. (Small, brief explanation: the schools in my school district have been doing this thing where they send out buses to give out food to anyone that needs it. That's where I got the doughnut.)
All throughout the weekdays, I'm sat at my dining room table, sitting opposite of my dad who has his own setup for his job. That's both an okay thing and a bad thing. I love my dad, I really do, but having to be across the table from him to do my school work? Yeah, he's a total dork and as much as I enjoy him being a goofball, his constant meetings and his randomness is distracting. Not as distracting as my mom, younger brother, and little sister, though.
Mom has a short temper and not necessarily enough patience to work with my sister to make her get her school work done. Every now and then, I can hear Mom yelling at my sister for messing around instead of working or acting like she doesn't know how to answer a problem. Not to mention that if the two kids get all of their work done, my brother is either in his room watching anime (something he picked up from yours truly) or out in the living room where my sister hangs out. Usually, if that's the case, they typically argue, roughhouse, or something else that includes the two being loud and obnoxious.
Just another reason I don't get all my assignments done and turned in on time.
I've been trying to get a break over weekends, playing video games, just lazing around the house, and chatting and role-playing via text with my girlfriend. It helps, a lot, but not well enough.
I still have chores and things I have to do all the time. Dishwasher, litter box, the ever growing disaster mine and my sister's bedroom is, the pile of clothes on the floor in our room that I need to get put away, but either forget or am too busy, and last, but DEFINITELY not least, the piles and piles of work I have to get done. Even so, I have at least ONE thing I THINK I can look forward to:
My birthday is coming up.
The nice thing is that the whole "social distancing" thing was lightened up enough to (from what my parents have told me) allow gatherings of up to 15 people..... I think...
But, as nice as that is, my birthday is in the middle of the week, last I checked.
On the 9th of June, I can look forward to turning 16 and possibly getting to see multiple friends at once, but I also have classes that particular day. Fun..
Well, I mean, on the bright side, my mom likely wouldn't want my 16th birthday to end up not being well spent since she hadn't had that when she had her's.
All in all, this quarantine has been both a good and bad thing in my case. Not to mention my distancing from my girlfriend helped not just myself, but both of us both to discover a lot more about our sexualities.
I knew I was demisexual and pansexual, but it turns out that I'm also polyamorous, which is honestly hard to explain how I did, but that's a story for another day... For the longest time, my girlfriend always thought she was panromantic and apothysexual, but because of the distancing between us, she found out that she was a (hardcore) lesbian.
Who would've thought that all it took to find out that much more about ourselves was a quarantine and not being able to see each other very much?
i need more friends
Me, getting on Tumblr: Alright, now no getting distracted! We're here for writing ideas.
Tumblr: Lol, look it's a gay character.
Me: Liked and moving on to-
Tumblr: He's played by Finn Wolfhard
Me: ...reblogged and away I go to find-
Tumblr: Oh look the post below has something Ben Schwartz related on it...
Me: Oh fuck that would be a problem but there's not enough Ben content on here to make me spend an hour looking through it so it's fine-
Google: Hey, Pinterest has a notification for you also one of your mutuals on Tumblr just posted.
Me: OH SHIT-
me.
people can hate doom scrolling and yes yes sense. go wiggle your toes. clouds and sunshine are nice. rolling in grass and hoarding pebbles seems is joyful and these papers need to be folded or scribbled over. numbers and words are very productive i see.
but ,honestly the internet is so beautiful. its good to delve deep. find those oyesters.
goto go make origami for my rocks to look at.
I've been trying to clip we coded for an hour... #chocolatecat #mocha #annoyingcat #distractions #cats #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram
Data analytics is getting pretty fascinating these days! Wish I had the time to take more courses
Would you know of like. Hobbies to start/things to do that don't require any physical objects or money, bc I have neither and have no idea what to do with myself. (I mean, that's all of the time, not bc of the virus since my school is still in session, but it might also be helpful for other people rn maybe? idk)
that’s a great question! starting off, i have a distractions tag that has lots of links for games and sites that can help pass the time, and some other posts that i’ll link straight to here, along with other interesting things i can find on my blog:
100+ Legal Sites to Download Literature
free online courses from Harvard / free online courses from MIT
24 Invaluable Skills To Learn For Free Online This Year
learn origami
free art programs
educational youtube channels
freerice.com (answer questions and donate rice)
hobbies masterpost
yoga for beginners (if you don’t have a yoga mat, you could probably make do with a towel)
free documentaries
youtube channels for exercise
learn things for free!
free online language courses
learn american sign language / signschool / asl resources
PBS Nova / PBS Nature
free Windows applications
read this if you want to start pirating media
look up the apps Overdrive, Libby, and Hoopla for free digital content from your local library
language pod company
37 best websites for learning a new skill
download photoshop and sai for free
internet resources for education
best educational websites
libguides
huge google drive folder of free essays and books on social issues
primewire (a site that collects streaming links)
some of my tags:
gardening tag (if you have a yard, you might be able to plant some things you already own, like garlic or tomato seeds)
yoga tag (again, you don’t have a yoga mat, a towel should suffice)
exercise tag
writing tag (for improving your writing skills)
adulting tag (you might learn some stuff)
school tag (even if you’re not in school, lots of interesting resources)
some youtube videos/channels:
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Complete, Ordered MST3K Collection)
Bob Ross
Watercolor by Shibasaki
How It’s Made
TEDtalks
Li Ziqi
What I’ve Learned
Bon Appetit test kitchen
Lush How It’s Made
Gayle
Body Positive Yoga
search “singing lessons” and you can find lots of videos to help you improve your voice, no matter how bad you think you are
failing all else, Cracked can always keep me occupied for hours.
if anyone has any youtube channels or sites they recommend, please comment or reply and i’ll add them. take care of yourself, everyone. <3
What kind of distractions do you have to draw Shrimpo making fried rice...?
ASTRO DOODLESSSS
Ur tellin me Shrimpo fried this rice...❓️
I was supposed to be drawing Vee but I got distracted and drew Shrimpo making fried rice over a picture of a shrimp frying rice. I'll finish that Vee drawing laterr...
